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The sun rises above Rafah as four-day truce in Israel-Hamas war takes effect. IMAGES
The White House says it is "cautiously optimistic" on the chances for a Gaza ceasefire deal after a new proposal by Hamas but stressed that talks were far from over. "We're cautiously optimistic that things are moving in the right direction," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters in a press briefing. SOUNDBITE
Artifex, the last DJ to play at the Nova festival on October 7, blasts out electronic music as hundreds of people attend the event in Tel Aviv to mark 100 days since the attack on an open-air site in the Negev desert by Hamas. IMAGES
At least 120,000 people attend a rally for hostages in Tel Aviv according to the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum Headquarters. The hostages were taken by Hamas following the militant group's unprecedented October 7 attack on southern Israel. Marking the 100 days mark since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the rally will go on for 24 hours until the evening of 14 January. IMAGES
Rocket fire from both the Israeli army and Palestinian groups clouds out the sky over northern Gaza at sunset after Israel and Hamas brushed off international calls to renew an expired truce, as seen from the Israeli border city of Sderot. Both sides blame each other for the breakdown of the truce, which before it lapsed had enabled the release of 80 Israeli hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners. IMAGES
Trucks carrying aid enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, after Israel and Hamas agreed to extend by one more day a truce under which hostages are exchanged for Palestinian prisoners and aid flows into the war-devastated Strip. IMAGES
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